Mobile phones, cars & crashes were being talked about on the radio again this morning

[crowie]

Mobile phones, cars & crashes were being talked about on the radio again this morning...

I came across this Samsung trial in Newcastle last year...rewards based and positive results...
I'd like to see it on all phones and across the whole country....
Please take the time to watch the video and read the Samsung info on the program...
Cheers, crowie

Samsung "S-Drive"
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What is S-Drive?

Every year, hundreds of young Australians are involved in car accidents.
One of those drivers was Jarrad Ingram, who sustained brain injuries after a horrific crash in 2006. Today, as he continues to work through a difficult recovery process, Jarrad wants to help prevent others from becoming yet another statistic on our roads.
As an initiative of Samsung’s Launching People™ project, and inspired by Jarrad’s story, we wanted to create something that attempts to make a difference to these sobering statistics, and launch a program that promotes safe driving. And so the S-Drive program was born. At its heart is an app that helps transform compatible Samsung GALAXY phones into tools that reward safe driving.

https://www.samsung.com.au/sdrive/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9TlxdyYNUY

[elanjacobs]

It's an interesting concept.
I think this ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbjSWDwJILs ) would be a good idea as well, mandatory mobile phone use during the driving test. On a closed course, obviously.

[Chris Parks]

An excellent idea. I found that even after talking hands free if I thought back on it I had no recollection of what I had done during the conversation. Phones in cars a simply a menace and an invitation to having accidents.

[ian]

So if you get so close to the back of my car at 110km/h on the freeway that I can't see your number plate, overtake and then cut back in when you're barely 15m past the nose of my car, use lane 2 to overtake 20 cars waiting at a red light to tun left and then force your way into a driveway on the left, prop 4 car lengths from an intersection and force your way into the right turn queue you should have joined 300m back, BUT leave your mobile phone in your pocket and stay below the speed limit -- you're a safe driver?

give me a break




and yes, I've seen all of the above in the last 4 days

[elanjacobs]

So if you get so close to the back of my car at 110km/h on the freeway that I can't see your number plate, overtake and then cut back in when you're barely 15m past the nose of my car

I hate that forcing those people to crash is illegal. It'd be doing everyone a favour.

[RedShirtGuy]

Look, I really do hope it helps with the road toll, but man oh man does this kind of thing really, REALLY get on my nerves on a societal level.

Do we really need selfish incentives to not be tools on the road (or in life) other than not dying ourselves and/or hurting/killing someone else? Apparently so.

The line in the video about copping a fine when we do something wrong but not getting rewarded when we do something right made me see red. What the hell is wrong with doing something "good, right and LAWFUL" for no reward? Grrrrrrrrrr.

Does the app educate, or simply inspire good behavior ONLY because you get a piece of cake at the end? Is it habit inducing or are users constantly thinking "I can't do that or I won't get this".

Perhaps there should be an app where you can earn rewards for not stabbing every person in the face that annoys you...I'm sure that I'd have earned having a whole country to myself by now

"GIMME GIMME GIMME because I did the right thing"...that's what it amounts to.


Again, I do hope that it helps the brainless-idiot-dribblers that can't be responsible for themselves or disconnected from their life for more than a minute to perform their civic duty behind the wheel to lift their game.



Sorry for the restrained vitriol (good grief....SOOOO restrained). Bit of a sore point.

Carry on

[kiwigeo]

There's only one fact that needs to be rammed home with drivers who insist on using a mobile phone while driving......the amount of time there attentions is off the road and on their phone...and the distance their vehicle has travelled in that time.

[Bob38S]

Perhaps radical but would solve the problem.

Hand held phone use, so it appears to be "proven" equates to driving over the legal alcohol limit well then, treat it the same way, fines + suspensions but also confiscate and destroy the phone. Providing the exact time is logged then the phone log should prove it was being used when it shouldn't have been.

Radical, agreed, but the results of phone use while driving can be fatally permanent. The current laws don't appear to be a deterrent, perhaps this will.